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I Am 27 Years Old Male,father Of Two Young Little Girls 4 And 1 Husband To A Great Women.i Am Frustraded Because I Have Not Been Feeling Well For The Past 3 Years, And This Is How It All Started. One Day About 3 Years Ago I Was Lying Down In My Bed Face Down Just Watching Tv When All Of A Sudden I Started Feeling Little Sharp Pain In My Chest Like Every 2 To 3 Seconds So I Thought It Must Be A Muscular Problem So I Felt Asleep Next Day Woke Up Still Had It Spent That Whole Day With This Ploblem No Other Symtoms Went Away By Itself.1 Week Later Around 3 A.m In The Morning Woke Up With Sharp Pain In My Chest This Time It Was Really Bad And Felt Shortness Of Breath So I Rushed To The Er Spent The Whole Night Ran Ekg, Blood Test And Said Everything Was Normal.after That I Have Rushed To The Er 4 Times For Shortness Of Breath And Bad Sensation In My Chest Have Seen Seen About 7 Diffrent Doctors And Visited 4 Cardiologist Which Have Run Echocardiograms, Ekg , All Sorts Of Blood Tests,nuclear Test Of My Heart,tredmill Echos And Every Test Supposely Comes Out Good And I Keep Feeling Really Bad And Keeps Getting Worse.now Every Other Time That I Even Stand Up From Were Im Sitting Or If Im Sleeping And Just Turn In My Sleep I Feel This Pounding In My Chest Which Wakes Me Up I Cant Do My Normal Activities I Feel I Cant Even Play With My Daughters Because If I Move Very Quickly Or Jump Or Run Or Even Bend Down To Pick Them Up I Feel Pounding And Shortness Of Breath.the Only Thing That Doctors Have Seen Is When They Have Put A 24 Hour Holter On Me To Monitor My Heart They Have Noticed Its Running A Little Bit Fast But Have Said The Problem Is Not My Heart But My Anxiety And That Its All In My Head But I Try To Forget It And The Symtoms Dont Go Away Speacialy This Poundind And Sometimes Pain In My Arm My Back My Legs I Just Dont Know What Else I Even Saw A Electrofisiologist Or Something Like That Which Is Supposed To Check The Energy Inside The Heart And He Recommended A Ept Test Which He Sends A Tube Through One Of My Veins Into My Heart And Checks To See If The Energy Inside It Is Ok Now Im Scared I Dont Know If I Should Go With The Test I Guess Anything That Involves Something Going Into Your Heart Is Very Risky But I Feel I Have No Other Choice Some Doctors Say It Is Anxiety And That Its All In My Head Now I Cant Believe I Can Make Tjis Up The Symtoms Are Terrible And I Just Wanna Be Around To See My Daughters Grow Up Can Anybody Please Help Me Or Give Me Some Advise Please

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I have mild asthma and anxiety problems and have had your symptoms. When my asthma begins to kick up, it causes my anxiety to worsen. I will wake up at night suddenly with shortness of breath and then panic thinking it's my heart because now it is pounding and my anxiety will kick in. It's very frightening. I never knew I had asthma until I landed in ER a couple years ago and I am 55 years old. I am not saying you have asthma, but have the doctors considered other organs like your gallbladder as a possible source of the problem?

thanks for the advice but no i dont believe any doctors have mentioned that i have had a endoscopy and they said i had a very small hiatel hernia but not to be very worried about but my ploblem now is daily shortness of breath even just just trying to stand up and pounding and pain in my chest